Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. I have always had a strong affinity for Japanese culture, perhaps because I grew up in Northern California. It’s clear to me that our economic divide is also a technological divide and unless we solve this economic disparity will persist.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Offers specialty eye care using world class state of the art technology. Boasting revenues of up to $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

In California that averages around 42.5% So when the Stanford MBA, the ex senior technology developer or the former Chief Revenue Officer of a company is calling me and asking my advice on their next gig you can see why I start with “are you ready to earn or to learn? It was 1999. It was easy to do these calcs.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I tried a bunch of jobs: I taught fourth grade, worked at a nonprofit, and made an ungodly amount of money doing odd jobs at a dot-com because hey, it was 1999. So, I enrolled in the journalism program at the University of California at Berkeley. What’s changed over the last decade in terms of the role of the technology press?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Thanks to CJ Xia, Boster Biological Technology ! #6- I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC. 6- Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup Company. Photo Credit: Deborah Sweeney.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. Our vision is that this kind of technology is going to improve the experience for both populations,” she said.Ms.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) I was living the dream – working 80 hour weeks and all the technology I could drink with a fire hose.)

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  In VC, it’s considered more naturally a young person’s game (perhaps because we’re always dealing with waves of new technology, young founders).    With related technology advancements in energy technology and strong legislative support from the state of Massachusetts , it is arguably uniquely positioned there as well. 

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild. in History from UCLA.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

That economy, our new economy, looks vastly different from that which we’re, perhaps, familiar in California or New York. Some large companies can bolster their position by buying out established technology and business models rather than creating them anew. California. Imagine that. Put simply, why bother?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Wired Magazine has crowned Tel Aviv the world’s second largest center for technology start-ups after Silicon Valley. In its September issue, the science and technology magazine created a list of 10 European cities that constitute significant centers for high-tech activity. See the headlines below. . Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Israel’s AeroScout, which develops chips that use RFID technology to track objects, animals and humans through Wi-Fi networks has been sold to an unnamed international infrastructure and services company for $240m. XtremeIO is a maker of flash memory storage technology, and will now become an R&D unit of EMC.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. Others are less confident in the staying power of this latest in a long series of booms that have marked the history of the California economy.

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